How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler

by Ryan North

Vitamin Where to get it What can happen if you don’t eat enough A Liver, oranges, milk, carrots, sweet potatoes, and leafy vegetables. Night blindness, which can lead to total blindness. B1 Pork, brown rice, whole grains, nuts, seeds, liver, and eggs. Weight and appetite loss, confusion, muscle weakness, heart problems, and involuntary eye movements. B2 Milk, bananas, green beans, mushrooms (but the few mushrooms that are toxic can be really toxic, so be careful with those), almonds, dark chicken meat, and asparagus. Painful red tongue; sore throat; chapped lips; oily, scaly skin rashes around your genitals; and bloodshot eyes. B3 Meat, fish, eggs, whole grains, and mushrooms. The three D’s: diarrhea, dermatitis, and dementia. And by “dermatitis” we mean “your skin can discolor before peeling off.” Other symptoms include sensitivity to the sun, aggression, confusion, and hair loss. B5 Meat, broccoli, and avocados. A chronic feeling of pins and needles, and/or a chronic feeling of bugs crawling under your skin. B6 Meat, potatoes (with skin), eggs, liver, vegetables, tree nuts (i.e., basically every nut except peanuts, which aren’t even technically nuts in the first place), and bananas. Anemia (your blood can’t carry oxygen as well, which can make you feel confused and pass out), plus nerve damage. B7 (Raw) egg yolks, liver, peanuts, almonds, and leafy green vegetables. Your hair doesn’t grow properly, your skin doesn’t grow properly, plus you can have abdominal pain, crampi...